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  2. Kent Island (Maryland) - Wikipedia

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    Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay and a historic place in Maryland.To the east, a narrow channel known as the Kent Narrows barely separates the island from the Delmarva Peninsula, and on the other side, the island is separated from Sandy Point, an area near Annapolis, by roughly four miles (6.4 km) of water.

  3. File:Map of Maryland highlighting Kent Island.svg - Wikipedia

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    A locator map showing Kent Island in Maryland. David Benbennick made this map. It is a simple modification of Image:Map of Maryland highlighting Queen Anne's County.svg.

  4. Kent Fort, Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Kent Fort was a fort and settlement located near on southern Kent Island in colonial Virginia and later Maryland, and was the first English settlement within the boundaries of present-day Maryland and the fourth oldest permanent English settlement in the United States, after Jamestown, Virginia (1607), Hampton, Virginia (1609–10), and Plymouth, Massachusetts

  5. Kent Narrows - Wikipedia

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    The Kent Narrows, also known as Kent Island Narrows and to local residents simply as the Narrows, is a waterway that connects the Chester River with the Eastern Bay and also separates Kent Island from the Delmarva Peninsula. It runs through the community of Kent Narrows, Maryland. The Kent Narrows was originally shallow and surrounded by marsh.

  6. Matapeake people - Wikipedia

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    Due to the increasing population of European settlers on Kent Island during the late 1600s and early 1700s, the Matapeake people were forced to leave the island and join neighboring Algonquian tribes. [4] The Matapeake people referred to Kent Island as Monoponson in their language. [5]

  7. Category:Kent Island, Maryland - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 6 November 2020, at 02:06 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Chesapeake Bay - Wikipedia

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    The Chesapeake Bay (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ s ə p iː k / CHESS-ə-peek) is the largest estuary in the United States. The bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula, including parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and the state of Delaware.

  9. Love Point, Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Love Point is the name for the northernmost tip of Kent Island, Maryland, United States and as such, marks the southern point of the mouth of the Chester River.It has served as a major ferry terminal, the western terminus of the Queen Anne's Railroad, and the nominal western terminus of Maryland Route 18 (which is aligned in a north–south direction near Love Point).